You will see the same dialog described in the way #1. You should determine a hostname of your pc (something like MYPC in Windows) or better the IP address of your PC. If you can not see any found Windows shares, things become more complicated. Your share should be accessible now by clicking the tab. In most cases you need to keep SMB2 checkbox selected. Also, if your share is password protected, fill username and password fields. All you need here is to provide the name of the tab (anything really). You will see the Add Windows share dialog.

There is a chance that your server will appear under SMB header. The most simple way is to go Network lookup. Vimu Player is able to see shared directories of your Windows PC and play video files from them.ĭepending on your home network configuration, there are two ways to add your SMB share: SMB protocol is that makes your Windows computers to share files between each other.

NOTE: you will NOT see any media files here! You need to create bookmark before playing media files.

After pressing the bookmark button, you are allowed to set up a name for your bookmark. Then you can bookmark the whole server (just press Bookmark dir button) or navigate to some subdirectory to bookmark it directly. It should find all media servers in your local network. Use discovery service of Vimu Player (Network lookup) to add UPnP/DLNA server. The following servers were tested: Plex Media Server, Kodi/XBMC server, Twonky, TVMOBiLi, tversity, Serviio. You should have a compatible server installed on your PC or NAS. UPnP/DLNA is the most easy way to play content on your Android TV or FIre TV over LAN with Vimu. You can also use SD Card here if your device supports it (like Nvidia Shield or Fire TV gen 2). So, if your directory contains txt, doc, pdf, they will not be displayed. Notice, that Vimu only displays video/audio files. USB drive should have FAT32 filesystem (some units also support NTFS).

To use Vimu Player with an USB drive simply connect it to your Android TV or Fire TV device.

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